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Published by S. Paul, 1971
ISBN 10: 0091031613ISBN 13: 9780091031619
Seller: Re-Read Ltd, Doncaster, United Kingdom
Book
paperback. Condition: Good. Pages have no notes or highlighting. The spine is creased. There is creasing/wear to the cover.
Published by Newcomen Society of North America, 1981
Seller: BookManBookWoman Books, Nashville, TN, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Booklets. Condition: Fine. First Printing. Set of 10 pamphlets published by the Newcomen Society. All in Fine condition except one. One has small dried wet stain on top right of cover. Not a book club (BC)copy. Not a ex-library, no previous owners' name, not a remainder, not price clipped, smoke free. PHOTOS POSTED WITH OUR BOOKS ARE STOCK AND DO NOT NECESSARILY REFLECT CONDITION OR EDITION OF BOOK OFFERED FOR SALE. WE DO NOT POST THE PHOTOS. Shelf 1034.
Published by En Passant Chess Publication, Birmingham, 1955
Seller: The Book Collector, Inc. ABAA, ILAB, Fort Worth, TX, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 19 typescript pages. Quarto (10 1/4" x 8 1/4") bound in original publisher's red wrappers. (Betts: 25-234) First edition. A selection of 64 games from the British Championship, each with a short introductory comment and a summary of each round's play. Also includes four games from subsidiary sections. The Annual Congress of the British Chess Federation began with a near record entry of 155 players. This figure was exceeded by last year at Nottingham but on that occasion the brutish Women's' Championship was included in the events. The playing hall at the University of wales was appointed. First Harry Golombek; 2. Wade; 3-5 Milner-Barry, Parr and Phillips. Condition: Edge wear, corners bumped. About very good issued in wrappers.
Published by Passant Chess Publications, Birmingham, 1954
Seller: The Book Collector, Inc. ABAA, ILAB, Fort Worth, TX, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 22 typescript pages. Quarto (10 1/4" x 6 1/4") bound in original publisher's wrappers. All 45 games with notes from the Premier tournament. (Betts: 25-224) First edition. The 29th Hastings Christmas Chess Festival was held at the end of the year 1953. After resuming annual tournaments in 1945 after the war, the chess club at 7 Carlisle Parade had struggled to keep the event ongoing without many foreign participants to make the contests more engaging to the public. This edition of the premier tournament saw an opportunity that would shape the course of the event for the remainder of the 1950s. The Soviet Chess Federation, in the interest of displaying their dominant grandmasters to the West, sent as emissaries David Bronstein and Alexander Tolush to participate in the festival. They were met by four time Hastings winner Dr. Savielly Tartakower, and Conel Hugh O'Donel Alexander who had won the 22nd edition of the Hastings event and been a code-breaker for the Allies during WWII. The remaining seats were filled by International masters Aleksander Matanovic, Alberic O'Kelly de Galway, and Robert Wade; Fridik Olafsson who had placed 3rd in the 1953 World Junior Championship; Rudolf Teschner, the editor of Deutsche Schachzeitung and West German champion of 1951; and a previous Hastings participant, Dennis Horne. The time control for the event was 34 moves in two hours followed by 17 moves every hour. Alexander won his second Hastings festival with 6½/9, sharing first with world vice-champion Bronstein. Despite Bronstein's shared first, his and Tolush's losses to Alexander, as well as their inability to sweep the field, were considered an embarrassment by the Soviet Chess Federation. They would retaliate the following year by sending Vasily Smyslov and Paul Keres to Hastings to accomplish what Bronstein and Tolush had failed to do. Nevertheless, the new invitations to Soviet grandmasters was a success and the Hastings Christmas festivals continued with new vigor throughout the 1950s. Third O'Kelly de Galway 5½, =4th Olafsson, =4th Tolush, =4th Teschner and =4th Matanovic 4½, 8th Tartakower 3½, 9th Wade 3 and last 10th Horne 2. Condition: Wrappers soiled, corners bumped and rubbed else about very good.